PANASONIC DMR-T3030 Professional DVD Video Recorder Player

PANASONIC DMR-T3030 Professional DVD Video Recorder Player
Manufacturer: Panasonic
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
The DMR-T3030 delivers up to 12 hours of DVD recording. DMR-T3030 records onto highly compatible DVD-R disks, allowing them to share video recordings with virtually anyone with a DVD player. High quality digital copies of originally created video content can be used for an array of applications: weddings, education, events, training, sports, video kiosks, product demonstrations and entertainment. Video libraries can be archived, preserved, and easily cataloged and accessed on DVD.Once video is recorded to DVD, it is instantly accessible and ready to view without having to search, rewind or fast-forward. The DVD recorders allow users to easily navigate, edit scenes and create custom play lists of digital content on a DVD disk. Offering a new 3-1/8" high slim design, the DMR-T3030 provides five different recording speeds, varying in recording quality and length. This Panasonic recorder offers a Time Slip feature that allows users to watch a program in progress from the beginning, while the program continues to record to the end. The units' Time Slip button permits a user to go back to a desired scene during recording. A Direct Navigator function displays a list of recorded programs on each disk for an at-the-glance confirmation of contents. The Playlist Playback function allows the arrangement and saving of an original scenario from among the scenes already recorded. The DVD recorders also offer a built-in time base corrector, 3D separation circuitry and 3D digital noise reduction to improve video quality in analog-to-digital transfer.In addition, a built-in standard PC card slot enables users to download and save digital images from an SD Memory Card, MultiMedia Card, Compact Flash, Smart Media and other flash memory cards. In addition to recording and playing DVD-RAM and DVD-R disks, both recorders can also play DVD-video, music CD, CD-R and CD-RW disks.

Average customer rating: 4.5

A few issues
Lite-on is Right-on!
Great Drive.
Best Price and Good Value

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Lite-On SHW-1635SX External 16x DVD-RW Dual Drive

Manufacturer: Lite On
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000E0EMUK

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Product Description

This versatile DVD drive from Lite-On reads and writes DVD+/-R single and double layer discs, as well as DVD+/-RW and reads DVD and CD-ROMs, and reads and writes to CD-R / CD-RW formats as well. It features a high-speed, plug-and-play USB 2.0 connection for fast and simple disc burning projects.

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This versatile DVD drive from Lite-On reads and writes DVD+/-R single and double layer discs, so you can record double the data on a single disc. Double-layer DVD media records up to 8.5GB of information on one disc, which equals approximately 16 hours of VHS-quality video or 4 hours of DVD-quality video.

The Lite-On SHW-1635SX writes DVD+/-R discs at speeds up to 16x and DVD+R double layer discs up to 8x. This drive also writes CD-Rs and read CD-ROMs at speeds up to 48x. It features a high-speed, plug-and-play USB 2.0 connection that makes disc burning projects fast and easy.

Lite-On's SMART-BURN technology and a 2 MB buffer combine to minimize recording errors. SMART-X technology monitors and adjusts read speeds for smooth performance. And the Vibration Absorber System reduces vibration and noise.

Customer Reviews:

A few issues.......2007-02-28

I actually struggled with deciding if this was two stars or three for me, I opted for three I guess for the overall drive and product, but despite its 'supposed' ease, I found difficulties with it.

Straight out of the box and plugged in, I found there were really no 'clear' written instructions on what software to load first and what each of the bundled software packages actually did. All of the manuals are in .PDF format which are nice, and included, but I was still asking myself what each disc was for and what did I really need to load.

To my dissapointment, and through some trial-by-fire experimentation, I determined that the drive itself needed to have its firmware updated from Liteon immediately 2 versions newer than what shipped in box. Visiting the Liteon website could have been easier as the firmware and drivers seemed to have been buried. But once I did find them, I will say the setup and install phase was pretty darn good and straight foward.

The drive itself can be a little noisy at times, but I'm not sure what one expects from an external USB drive for this price point. It shouldn't be a problem if yoru are burining DVDs, but if you plan on using this device to watch DVD's, you may find the noise irritating after awhile.

My biggest complaint was some very frustrating trial and error burning my first DVD's. I used Verbatim DVD-R (the manual indicated DVD-R was an acceptable format), and I ended up wasting at least 6 DVD's before 1 actually wrote correctly. I keep receiving an 'Illegal Disc error' 1/2 way through the burn process and the troublshooting guide and onlien help have ZERO reference to this. It's puzzling because one disc did write successfully, a second one appeared to write correctly but failed on closing session, and the rest were all failures.

I solved this by using a Memorex DVD+R. This works fine, but at a much lower speed....5x as opposed to the capable 16x it can with DVD-R.

The pre-bundled Nero Express software has both pros and cons. The wizards seem straight forward, drag and drop files, and user intuitive...but over all, kind of high on resources and can be clunky at times. I had a few 'fatal errors' which suggests that while I am still running XP Professional, there are some bugs.

I had heard a lot of great things about Liteon, but overall I wasn't overly impressed. It just seems like another typical DVD writer/reader.

Lite-on is Right-on!.......2007-01-10

This external cd drive was recommended to me by a friend in the tech field. Bottom line, the product works great. A little noisy at higher RPM's, it is a minor issue. Speed can easily be increased or decreased and the spindle noise can be eliminated. Great reliability and well worth the money. The software with it is excellent.

Great Drive........2006-07-27

If you see my review on the Yamaha Multi Disc Player, you already know that I like versatility. Considering that it's external, and that it burns just about anything, it's a great drive at a great price. On CD's though it's a little too fast for my processor, so I use the internal that I have. No problems with the USB port. If firewire ever goes down in price, I may try that but until that day, this is fine.

Best Price and Good Value.......2006-07-18

I was looking for DVD Writer that could work externaly on my Notebook and could be attached to my kids PC. I wanted a low price one, but with good functionality and performance. Lite-On SHW-1635SX is the one. It works fine.

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